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Monday, June 24, 2013

This week has been
pretty good. We had 2 exchanges. We worked with New Castle and Gloucester! I
loved it!! I miss sister Koons so much. It was like we never were
separated. She is hilarious. She
has grown since I left as well. Her companion is Sister Hikki. She is so cute! We had a really good time. It was nice to see my investigators in Gloucester. A, passed her
interview and is getting baptized next Saturday!! :) She is so excited!
We met some cool people on the exchange as well. I loved being
in Gloucester again. It was different driving the roads instead of
biking on the bike paths.

In my current area G, is doing so
well. She read the whole Book of Mormon in 4 days and loves it. She
reads the Gospel Principle’s all the time. She had her baptismal interview
and passed. She is so amazing. R, is doing well and
is working on getting the priesthood.

We did some service
this week as well. It was a good week, but a very busy week. For some
reason I don't really know what all to say. It was good. Nothing new....

Sorry for the short
email. This next transfer is going to go really fast. President said he doesn't have enough sisters to call any more. So we already do 2 exchanges a week and that is a lot. It is as much as the AP's and now this upcoming transfer we will have to do 3!!! So we will be super busy!! I will probably look like death when I come home but that's cool :) ha

Monday, June 17, 2013

I PASSED!!! I GOT MY
LICENCE!! THANK YOU Young Women FOR THE PRAYERS AND EVERYONE ELSE. I really
appreciate it. It has been a very busy week with my license test, mini-missionary,
2 exchanges. It has been amazing though! :)

Okay so this week has
been awesome. So let me just start out with G. She is amazing. She is an investigator
I remembered going to last year. I
remembered where she lived and her name. I know it wasn't a coincidence I
remembered. I know the Lord was doing his work. She is so solid. We went over
to have a lesson with her. We had Natalie who is a Recent Convert of a year
come on a mini-mission. (Where they come and live with the missionaries for a
few days, and live life as a missionary) Natalie was perfect for her. They have
a lot of similarities with how they found the church and how they feel about
God. G, loved the lesson about the Restoration. We set a baptismal date with
her, for the 29th of June and she said yes!! She has some mental health
problems/schizophrenia so we were shocked with her answer. How fast she said
yes. She said later on that she is afraid of water but that won’t stop her :) ...the next time that we saw her we gave her
Mormon.org and LDS.org websites to look at. She told us she looked at the whole
Mormon.org website and read every page. She has started to write happier poems.
She used to write depressing sad poems but now she feels happy, so she wants to
write happier as well :) We watched the Restoration DVD 20min, she loved it! She
couldn't stop watching, which is rare for her with some of her health problems.
We started to schedule a baptismal calendar where we can write what lessons we
will be teaching so she can study before hand. We gave her a child picture book
of the Book of Mormon because we didn't have a BIG print Book of Mormon. She
was so excited to read it and watch the movie again. We received at text an
hour later saying she has read the whole book. Front to back, she couldn't put
it down. She was so happy.

G was able to make it
to church on Sunday. She absolutely loved it! She told her family that she was
going to get baptized in the church. Her mother said she was going to disown
her, but she doesn't care. She wants to do what's best for her. What will make
her happy? Learning about the Gospel is what is making her happy! She said
after we left her house she looked up all of the lessons we were going to teach her in the next 2 weeks
and she studied. She had a question about coffee and tea but we told her why
and she said. "Oh that makes sense" We had to change her date to a
day earlier but she is legend!! In
Relief Society the lesson was on tithing. She leaned over to me and asked what
10% of £200 is? I told her and she was like. I will pay my tithing. It is
important!! :) ...Later on that evening
we called her, and she answered!! (She usually doesn't answer phone calls
because she gets nervous but she is feeling brave.) She is doing so well. She
told us after church she received the Gospel principles manual and she read the
WHOLE book and now is on page 15 of the Book of Mormon. She changed her music
to happy, uplifting music. She called her family to tell them about her
experience at church!! She is solid! We are so lucky to have her. I am so
grateful that I followed the prompting to go see her, to remember where she
lives. She was searching, she was praying, she needed help to feel loved. God
loves her so much, and just wants her to be happy and she feels that. She is
writing a poem about us this week and I am so excited to hear it. I love her
and I know we are so lucky to have her as an investigator. But I am just so excited
about the change going on with her. She is so happy and is changing for the
better. To be able to see the change that has happened in a week is incredible!
:)

This week we had
Natalie, the mini-missionary. She is amazing. We had a really good time with
her. She is amazing and has an amazing testimony. She wants to serve a mission
and will do great. She was with us for 3 days.

This next week will be good
as well. Another busy week with exchanges, but it is fun. And I get to see my
girl sister Koons I am so excited to see her I miss her so much!!

Just a reminder!!! I haven't received any post since March so I feel like everyone is waiting until I get home...but I still am out. Don't forget about me!! :) thanks.

I love you all thank
you for all that you do! I am so grateful to have you as my family!

Monday, June 10, 2013

This week has been really good. First off I want to say that I passed my theory.
I was so excited. I did really well. Now I am all signed up for my driving test
on Thursday at 3 o’clock our time. So please keep me in your prayers! :) I
really would appreciate it. I think I will do okay. :) I am so blessed. Things defiantly
happen for a reason. With Sister Laborero is here, I can drive with her in the
car. Which is really good because then I can practice for my driving test. :)

This week has been
good. Very busy, but I love it. We had zone council on Tuesday which is where
we swapped companions. The mtg was really good. I love it. We talked about
loving others, loving other missionaries. Helping missionaries, not only in
there missionary work but help them, talk with them, and care about them. It
was a really good mtg. We changed companions and we had exchanges right after
that. It was crazy. We went to Coventry. It was really good the missionaries there
are awesome. We found some brilliant people. I love working with others. They
have so much desire, and excitement for the work. This makes me even more
pumped :) I love it.

My new companion and I
had a really cool experience. We kept thinking we are together for a reason. So
we were thinking about the potentials we stopped by when we were here last
year; and we should go and stop by them again. Maybe they are ready, a year
later. Why not try? So we went and stopped by this girl. I drove there all by
memory. I guess my memory is good for some things. It was a miracle. We talked
with her on the door and she let us in after 5 minutes talking with her. We went
in and she was telling us she had been praying a lot lately. She has been doing
better. She wants some kind of guidance in her life. I know that Heavenly
Father helped us find her again. She had been on my mind all week. Since I
moved here to HOV. So I am so glad we followed the prompting to go stop by her.
I love her so much all ready.

We also had a really
good lesson with S, we taught him last year. He has been meeting with
missionaries for 13 months. He really wants to be baptized, but....he says it’s
like the second coming. I know it will happen everyone does but
we just don't know when. :) he
is funny. I really think my companion and I are together for a
reason maybe it is because we are the only ones that can
help him; and he knows that. He told me that I am here for
a reason. Heavenly father has sent us back to help him. So we will keep
you up dated on that :)

We met some really
cool people this week :) Some awesome potentials. Heavenly Father is blessing
us so much. Even though we are never in our area. (We were there like 3
days, and 2 of those we were together, my companion and I) we have found
potentials and we had 3 investigators at church.

Church was great. S
came to church, and he loved it. Also 2 others came. :) yeah!!!!! :) It was a
great sacrament meeting. I spoke again. Do you know what is funny? The topic
for this month is Matt 11:28-30 and that is the same scripture that Sis Laborero
and I spoke on a year ago in this ward. I think my talk was a little
better than it was a year ago at least I hope it was :) I got a sweet note
saying they loved my talk and they felt the spirit :) it was sweet!!

Monday, June 3, 2013

Hello family this
week! Wow!! A+ yet again. You all sent pictures it was so good. I really
appreciate it! :) So it made my day a lot better because this morning we got
new from President...It made me sad.

So, I'll just tell you
about the phone call from President. He called this morning. He told me he has
been praying. There are going to be 16 new missionaries and he needs trainers.
So he has to move some things around. At the beginning of the phone call he
said I would be going to Birmingham on Tuesday and I would be there to finish
my mission. I was super sad because I felt like Heavenly Father answered my
prayer in having me come back to HOV but then I was being sent away again. Somehow
President as he was explaining why he made the decision noticed Sis. Lewis
didn't have her license yet. So President called back a little later and said
Sis. Turnbow would be leaving and going to Harbour (Birmingham) where she
started her mission. It has been a rollercoaster this morning. A lot has
happened. But at the same time we have been able to talk about how we are so
blessed. We were hoping on the plan ride over to our mission we would serve together. We did
for 2 weeks. And it has been an awesome 2 weeks. We have seen Richard enter the
waters of baptism; we have done exchanges, worked together and shared what we
have learned on our missions. It has been a great 2 weeks. I am sad we will be
split up. But it was good while it lasted. So I will stay here, with Sister
Laborero. Then Sister Lewis and Turnbow will be in Birmingham together.

This week has been
pretty good. We had zone meeting. And because we are the sister leaders we had
part in the teaching. It went really well. The sprit was so strong. We talked
about confidence, unity, and obedience. It was really good. It was fun, I
was nervous while we were getting it ready. Because I don't feel like I am that
experienced. But as the meeting started and we went up, things just came into
my mind and it was great. I truly can see the Lord fills your mouth. I love it!
:)

We had 2 exchanges,
one with Sister Giles and Sister Gilmour, It was so fun. I was able to share
how being on a mission you do have to have patience with yourself and you will
grow. Maybe not in the time limit you give yourself. But as long as you are
always pushing yourself and trying hard. Don't stay in your comfort zone, and
then you will continue to change and become the missionary that the Lord needs
you to be. It was great. We also had an exchange with Sister Obias
Sanchez and Sister Wengert . We had a really good exchange. They are both so
amazing. They really are doing their best and they want to be the best missionaries
they can be.

We had COME UNTO
CHRIST CHOIR CONCERT in Cheltenham, which is right next to Gloucester. It
was so nice to go back to Gloucester. I was able to see some of the
ward. A is doing really well. She is working toward her baptism on
the 14th :) So excited!! It was fun to see all of the missionaries again
as well. I loved it.

At church yesterday we
had a miracle. One R got up again and he bore his testimony. We gave
him a journal to write down how he felt after his baptism. So he wrote it
down and read it for his testimony. He was nervous but he did a good job. Then...we
had 2 walk in’s come to church. A young man who just got back from his
mission 2 weeks ago invited them to an open house. Sister Turnbow and another
sister while I was on exchange taught them. They loved church. They are so
sweet. They are coming next week as well. I am so excited!!

Things are going
really well. I love mission life. Today it took a turn. I am VERY grateful I am
staying!! I really am so excited!! But I am sad that Sister Turnbow is leaving.
I have loved working with her. She is such a hard working missionary and has
pushed me to be better and to be excited!! I will miss her a lot but I am so
grateful for the time we had to serve together. I loved it!

I love you all.
Yesterday someone told me at church we have like 9 weeks left...WHAT!!! ahhhhhhhhh.....I
didn't like it, it is so weird. It is going so fast. I love you all. I am
so grateful you are all my family. I love you so much and I am so grateful for
how close we are. I love you and I can’t wait to hear from you next week.